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Most of Johnson’s are tales indown- set with other each have a stark quality that’s hard womanhood, raceand our inability to connect bottom,their and occasionally nd redemption. bleached, concrete stage for his players to reach Echo Park valley, to deep the he creates asun- Angeles with a frightening authenticity. From and end up paying dearly. Los Lange describes mavericks, of all whom make horrible decisions schemers, low-rent robbers bank and desperate on streets, We’re the withcriminals. the talking pretty politicians and detectives and put it back genre, Lange rippednoir from hands the of the ornburg here, and rebels like these of the toback writers like Jim ompson and Newton Boys pants the in hard-boiled stories the with of Dead battles an escalating addiction. Hollywoodthe machine they’re dark, too as he his novels optioned, constantly told being by enthere’s Brown to get himself, struggling own demons. His sister follows road. asimilar a few pretty big lms, before succumbing to his Later, his brother makes it as an actor, starring in with amentally unstable mother is fascinating. from to His innocence experience. upbringing on di erent personas as Brown’s shi story s AngelesLos looms large memoir, inthis taking gling writer is as guileless and come. real as they substancechildhood, abuse and life as astrug- (James Brown,2011) AMemoir The Los Angeles Diaries: » 9) 2015) 2015) West ofSunset (StewartO’Nan, 2016) Johnson, In theNot Quite Dark(Dana 2007) Boys(RichardDead Lange, characters.” Slash it sells right, too. OK, I’m cheating alittle. Stewart O’ Nan, who tightly wound, ese about esoteric tales Lange gave noir the genre amuch-needed kick WriterJames Brown’s account of his turbulent . Stark realism and inured harkens style erate cast of colorfullyinterwoven loves Hollywood, and he massacres it. about what killing you love? Well, Wagner chair.from electric the Who said something chotic breakdowns, of feel all which like jolts self-amelioration, aplenty drugs and psy- his nastiest, features celebrity appearances, Stars compass inhis stories. Dead long enough, you’ll there’s realize amoral tame),look but ifyou’ve Angeles lived inLos and grotesque (he makes Bret Easton Ellis more debauched. Wagner’s is style whimsical they’re already famous, trajectories their are have facesplastered their on big the If screen. desperateful, to doanything willing souls, to most de nitely o ensive and with piti-lled scraps. His novels are outrageous, disgusting, side, until there’s nothing le but bloody a career out of Hollywood’s dissecting dark ( fromcues novelist satirical Nathaniel West and its absurdist celebrity culture. Taking ist Wagner Bruce has approached Hollywood from inside the out. At least that’s how novel- for a Dream a for pantheonthe like Junkie of books memoir the scended genre of to part become its publication, execs, double the life, price the of fame. Since but it’spure meetingswiththe studio L.A— Permanent Midnight was out of control, and he crashed —hard. it through mundane meetings. Stahl story he could goand so jogging make speedballs In dealers. morning, the drug he injected ofparts city the to score from hardcore but night each he ventured to seediest the his earnings. He lived inHollywood the Hills, was he supported aheroin habit that matched upwards to ve grand aweek. eproblem lighting television writer, of episodes penning Moon- 1995) 1995) Stahl, Permanent Midnight (Jerry gerald reaches for that secondact. you understand its temptation, as even Fitz- with such an embroiling air of romanticism, O’trying. Nan Angeles 1930sLos describes town,this you must reinvent yourself, or die He discovered also that inorder in to survive compromise. adeadly Hollywood could be elist of contracthopeful with MGM, famed the nov- from alcoholism. Having moved here with a screenwriter before his untimely death at 44 his last few years Angeles inLos as afailed one day. As you might know, Fitzgerald spent and lows, it’llconsidered Ithink be aclassic rumination of Hollywood’s extreme highs Fitzgerald’s demise, is tragic such aspectral Sunset writer. He hails from Pittsburg. Still, West of L.A. an not Sox games with Stephenis King, Dead StarsDead (Bruce Wagner, (2012) eDay of the Locust), Wagner has made way ebest to eviscerate Hollywood is During the ’80s Jerry Stahl was a successful was Stahl asuccessful ’80s Jerry the During , his reimagining of novelist F. Scott eGreat Gatsby quickly that realized , Twin Peaks, and yes, ALF.He made . Ohand yeah, it’s funny as hell. 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To make things even more unpunk, remember standing outside X’s tiny oªdistinctly I when moment ce the space,after came a writing rehearsalthat But studio Me.” toon HollywoodBack “Come Blvd., forwhen doo-wop because of the tradition of tragic-death songs in the fties, I wrote music inspired by fties VW bug she was riding in was struck by a hit & run driver—forever changed our lives. Maybe about Exene’s departed sister, Mirielle. This tragic event—she was killed instantly when the signed to Elektra Records. Billy played saxophone, so we put sax on a song, “Come Back to Me,” our twenty-plus of years listening and playing in good or shitty bands. in up soaked had I & Exene Billy, DJ,that rootsmusic American of manner all bred high and later, in©uences of our lives on tour. The music sweet, wasand hard. It tight, short, blended and, death, heartbreak, Angeles, Los of landscapes true events,actual people, real about the beginning he asked us to make the performances as real as the songs. Our lyrics talked couldwherewas.directnessbe heHis overproduction.Fromspilled intopiecethe of every walkedconHis in. thatthink anotherin denceeaseand you made maybe you fteenyears a light, draped sports coat, T-shirt, and jeans. The coat got tossed on a chair shortly after he show didn’t o that he had couldbut money, you tell that he did. His “Ray consistedsuit” of clothesHis glasses. signaturewire-rimmed his keptstill but short cut grayhair steely his wore He cool. was he because cool his keptalways Ray But budget. our bydictated was experiment. But we knew the songs backward and forward. We raced to the to time nish have line, to whichseemed never the we recordon third song) the Untilthe recordings. nal recordedtogether “scratchmanythe used of and vocals” (vocals sung asband the tracked and He in toldFebruary. us we could do and it, most of the time he was right. & the wild, bohemian life we lived. Four of us—Exene, Billy, Ray & I—were born in the Midwest lyrics andcompared themto JimMorrison’s. Hesaw theconnection wehadto ouraudience gave them ideas when they needed it, and they shined because of it. He exalted Exene & my andera,Rayit gotthe several were of rock bands stepspunk mostotherplayers. ahead of thecomparedto honest, be to DJ’sthat, & musicianship praisedBilly He had. scenesother to it—had bit every asabandon wild much thatdark, any leather-jacketed punks from those could set the record straight that Los asAngeles—or the East“El Lay,” Coast snobs referred Association!”gaveconHe deeper a us dencecouldthatstepwe into shoes.Doors’We The to that legacy in Los Angeles rock He said, music. “You’re not The Beach Boys or The fucking noir, L.A., murderous—not some bullshit hippie band. He believed and told us that X truly added culture forever. He was a member of the muther-fuckin DOORS! Dark, mysterious, dangerous, had hit songs, gold and platinum records, and, more importantly, records that changed popular band and a kind of father gure to both Exene and me. Ray was fucking rock ‘n’ roll royalty. He and a half minutes and not embarrass ourselves too badly. three the through get to managed we Somehow GOT!” WHATWE THEM SHOW FUCKIN’ GONNA neverI rememberfeeling a exuberance,joyor of Never felt just nerves. IS THIS “FUCKYEAH!! foreign territory such as the rst tours in the Midwest or the South. On television together,a alwayspulled in appearancesespeciallywe those On shows. live of hundreds on did we way the outlaws of band a likeconnectedfeeling remember don’t self-consciousness.I deep a there. I felt like a fraud. Never felt like “This is going to make a mark” or “I deserve this.” I felt appearances with a mixture of anxiety, fear, and hubris. Personally I never felt like I belonged suTemptations,We The etc.). these of Berry, one Chuck each Brown, through Jamesered tastemakers like many so rankedwith We around. head your spin really can thatexperience humbling a us, releasedpraise,had fouralmostembarrassedmuch we records 1983,it to 1978so got that cliché most the fallinto X likeonly antiestablishmentband trap?In an fromdid years, ve with David Letterman,David with on timesthree or two Weplayed 1986. to 1980 As a dutiful I would clip son, them out of newspapers as out tourwe grinded after tour from year with our press clippings. They came from all over the US and also several from overseas. ’83 (More Fun in the New World). My mother, Gretchen, lled three or four loose-leaf binders per End Top Ten Best forList” 1980 (Los Angeles), ’81 (Wild ), Gift ’82 (Under the Big Black Sun), and BY JOHN DOE 26) FROM FROM 26) EXCERPT: AINT LOVE GRAND (CHAPTER THE UNMAKING AND LEGACY OF L.A. PUNK L.A. 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